Hugo de Vries

In this Dutch name, the surname is de Vries, not Vries.
Hugo de Vries
ForMemRS HonFRSE[1]
de Vries c. 1907
Born
Hugo Marie de Vries

(1848-02-16)16 February 1848
Haarlem, Netherlands
Died21 May 1935(1935-05-21) (aged 87)
Lunteren, Netherlands
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
InstitutionsLeiden University
Author abbrev. (botany)de Vries

Hugo Marie de Vries (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɦyɣoː də ˈvris]; 16 February 1848 – 21 May 1935)[2] was a Dutch botanist and one of the first geneticists. He is known chiefly for suggesting the concept of genes, rediscovering the laws of heredity in the 1890s while apparently unaware of Gregor Mendel's work, for introducing the term "mutation", and for developing a mutation theory of evolution.

  1. ^ Hall, A. D. (1935). "Hugo de Vries. 1848-1935". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 1 (4): 371–373. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1935.0002.
  2. ^ Ralph E. Cleland (1936). "Hugo de Vries". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 76 (2): 248–250. JSTOR 984672.